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CHAPTER 43: A Quiet Place to Breathe
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2025-12-13 21:15:38
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MAFIA BRIDE CHAPTER 70: THE FUNERAL WREATH
Savio was buried on a gray morning, under a sky so low that it looked ready to fall.St. Anselm's Church stood on a narrow street in Brooklyn, with old brick walls and a crooked bell tower. A hundred men in black suits filled the sidewalk outside, and nobody talked. Isabella stepped out of the car with a black veil over her face and one hand on her belly, and Marco Gentile took her elbow before she could stumble."Stay close to me, signora," Gentile said under his breath, his eyes moving across the rooftops, his grip firm and almost rough. "Do not walk ahead, and do not stand near the windows.""I understand, Marco," Isabella answered quietly, pulling her coat tighter around her shoulders. "Where is Luca?"Gentile nodded toward the church steps, his jaw tight. "Inside with the family, signora. He has not spoken a word to anyone since dawn."She looked, and her heart tightened. Luca stood alone at the top of the steps in a black coat, his hands clasped in front of him and a fresh banda
MAFIA BRIDE CHAPTER 69: EVERYTHING
Luca's study was the only room in the mansion where no one ever came without knocking.Isabella stood just inside the door with her back against the dark wood, and the lock turned under her trembling fingers with a sound like a gunshot. The lamp on the desk threw a thin yellow light across the leather chairs and the shelves of old books.He did not sit. He stood by the window with his hands behind his back, looking out at the black garden, and the blood on his collar had begun to dry."The recording, Isabella," he said, without turning around, his voice flat and quiet. "I'm waiting.""It's real," she whispered, pressing her palms flat against the door behind her. "Whatever Riccardo has, it's real. I was talking to Dante."Luca's shoulders did not move, but she saw his hands tighten behind his back until the knuckles went white. "Go on," he said, still not looking at her."He found me in Rome, three months before you did." The words came fast now, tumbling over each other, as if a dam
MAFIA BRIDE CHAPTER 68: SAVIO'S LAST WORDS
Luca could not feel his legs, but he kept walking.Every step sent a knife of pain up his thigh, and the burned skin on his shoulders cracked and wept inside his torn shirt. He stopped in the doorway of the war room, because there was nowhere left to carry the boy, and he went down on his knees on the cold marble."Get the doctor," he rasped, his voice breaking as he laid Savio down as gently as if the boy were made of glass. "Somebody get the doctor, now."The ruined jacket fell away from Savio's back, and several men gasped. The white shirt underneath was soaked dark red from his neck to his belt. Gentile was shouting orders somewhere behind him. Boots pounded. A woman cried out. But Luca heard none of it. He heard only the tiny wet sound of Savio's breathing, and his mind dragged him back to the fire.It had been black under the beam. That was what he remembered most, the weight of the world on his chest and the taste of dust in his teeth. He had heard the building groaning above h
MAFIA BRIDE CHAPTER 67: THE EMPTY CHAIR
Isabella did not remember walking down the stairs. One moment she was at the window with her palm flat against the cold glass, and the next she was in the grand hall, her heavy belly leading the way. Sofia ran behind her, begging her to slow down. The guards by the front door were pale and silent, and none of them would meet her eyes. "Tell me exactly what you saw," Isabella said, her voice shaking as she crossed the marble floor, one hand gripping the banister. Riccardo stood at the foot of the staircase with his bloodstained sleeves hanging at his sides. His face was gray and wet. "The warehouse is gone, Isabella," he answered thickly, pressing the back of his hand to his mouth like a man trying not to be sick. "The whole building came down. Nobody walked out of it." "Did you see his body?" she asked, stepping closer, her fingers digging into the wood. "There is no body to see!" Riccardo cried, flinging out his arm. "It's a pile of burning steel!" The words hit her so hard that
MAFIA BRIDE CHAPTER 66: RADIO SILENCE
The static had been going for forty minutes, and Isabella could no longer stand it. She stood in the doorway of the security office with one hand pressed against her swollen belly, watching Marco Gentile hunch over his screens. The drone feed showed a black rooftop and a thick column of orange smoke where the warehouse used to be. The radio on his desk hissed and crackled like a dying animal. "Say something," Gentile whispered into the microphone, gripping it until his knuckles turned white. "Luca, Paulo, anyone." The radio answered with static. "How long has it been since his last word, Marco?" Isabella asked, her voice thin, one hand gripping the doorframe. "Forty-one minutes, signora," Gentile answered without turning around, his jaw working. "The drone can't see through the smoke, and the cars from the docks are still twenty minutes away." Isabella nodded slowly, though he couldn't see it. "I'll be in the hall," she said, because if she stayed one more minute in that room, sh
MAFIA BRIDE CHAPTER 65: GARRISON AVENUE
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